Re: patch to autosuspend mice #2

Hi!
> 
> this preliminary patch should suspend your mouse, if it supports remote
> wakeup. In fact it should do this to all devices which are HID, claimed by
> the input layer and support remote wakeup.
> 
> It works for me with my mouse. I've tested letting it autosuspend and
> resume. It survives going to a text console, init 3 and hotplugging.
> Anything else is untested. I think it'll crash and burn with PID devices.
> I am working on that.
> 
> I am pretty sure that it actually goes to sleep taking the root hub with it.
> I'd be interested in knowing how much power it really saves. Short of
> running dry my laptop's battery I have no way of telling.
> 
> You need to compile with EXPERIMENTAL & USB_SUSPEND.
> This is the corrected version.

Measurements on x60:

Idle machine, lowest backlight, no usb plugged in:           10813 mW

Feb  1 15:55:49 amd kernel: input<3>Added idle timer for firing in 10
seconds
Feb  1 15:55:49 amd kernel: : USB HID v1.10 Mouse [HID 062a:0000] on
usb-0000:00:1d.0-1
Feb  1 15:55:49 amd kernel: PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev2.2_ep81
Feb  1 15:55:59 amd kernel: state is 0
Feb  1 15:55:59 amd kernel: Modded idle timer for firing in 10 seconds
Feb  1 15:56:09 amd kernel: state is -1
Feb  1 15:56:09 amd kernel: Detected idleness
Feb  1 15:56:09 amd kernel: Putting idle interface.

Power consumption:					     10860 mW

...so yes, it seems to work. (Measurement error is ~300mW)

When I actually use the mouse

Feb  1 15:58:14 amd kernel: Added idle timer for firing in 10 seconds
^[ Feb  1 15:58:24 amd kernel: state is 0
Feb  1 15:58:24 amd kernel: Modded idle timer for firing in 10 seconds
Feb  1 15:58:34 amd kernel: state is 0
...

Power consumption:					     13918 mW


So yes, this is must-have for anyone using usb mouse on a notebook.

I do not even need to press buttons to wake the mouse up, good. (Maybe
it has something to do with mouse being wireless and powered by 2x
AA?)

									Pavel

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